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Paula
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Sara, the nichos are very beautiful...
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Don Alley
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I notice Don might be one of my kind... I do love to walk in cemetaries, especially at dawn. Old habit from my youth. Enjoyed the photo, thanks
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I am descended from Fish. The grave was my great grandparents, with my mother and
grandmother buried next to them. Phoenix Pioneer Cemetary, near Medford, Oregon.
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bajabound2005
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In the Maneadero Cemetary
This was someone's shrine last year during Day of the Dead...Bud Lite - no wonder he's dead.
Friends don't let friends drink white zinfandel.
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Eli
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First off, there is so much to comment about on this thread. I just Love the Iconic Art represented here. The comments it has evoked. A great thread I
think!
Well.......... Maybe with the exception of the children dug up and put on display, I don't think that museum was created with love and reverence for
the departed, but than again what do I know. I don't always get all art, no one does.
So far, I have to go with the little shrine on the way to the Asuncion dump is my favorite, yep, I never seen that one and it sure is sweet and full
of reverence for the Virgin.
Nena, you have the "Coqueta Lupe" because you "get"what she is about and deserve her. I am so glad she found a home with you. I look forward to your
reaction to the Gallery this year, the collection has really grown since you were last there.
And Nena, Paula, Paulina Toneart, thank you for your most positive response to my little shrines, your comments inspire me.
Paulina, the charms that you refer to are simply called Milagro's. So far I have gotten my best deals buying them from the tiniest little old Santista
who sells at the entry to the courtyard of the church in Tlacolua Oaxaca.
She is getting up into her 90's now. Whenever I arrive we giggle at the good fortune that she (and me) are still there. She always offers me a big
smile, a hug and a chair. She pulls out the box where the Milagro charms are all mixed up in little bags. I sort thru them, count them, grab a piece
of paper from another box, and wrap them and tell her what I owe her give her a big hug and muchos thank you's and I am on my way for another season
of play.
This year I took her a wooden cross with a collage I created of the Virgin Guadalupe and some Milagros, glitter and siquienes that I have been
experimenting with this season, they are real fun to create.
The unfinished crosses like the boxes that I use for the nichos, I buy pretty wholesale in D.F., same neighborhood where I can find the images I like
to use and all kinds of collage play stuff. It is down by the Zocolo.
Also, I sell the Milagros, other trinkets and the unfinished boxes in my gallery. Besides I have a few boxes of my private collection of collage
materials in my studio, I really am greedy about the stuff, can never seem to get enough.
Oh, and no, I didn't create the little wooden calaca guy reading the book, who represents My Dad. I bought him on the street here in Oaxaca. At the
gallery, I have a collection of these little wood calacas playing all kinds of musical instruments, along with a pretty nice collection of Day of the
Dead Art.
You know; I will never forget the Ol Man quietly sitting on the bench facing the Dia de Muerto Alter I had set up in the Gallery the day it opened,
Nov 1st. Dia de Los Angelitos. He knew he was on his way out, and he sat there quietly eating a homemade oatmeal cookie snatched from the alter,
visiting with My dear departed Prof. Angel and Don Santo who were represented along with Frida and Diego Rievera on my alter that year.
The little Alter box I created for my Dad was done the next year after he passed on and of course included in the next alter. I hope I am fortunate
enough to someday join him there.
All of the little alter box nichos with the exception of the Aztec Lovers and La Batia were created as gifts for people I love and respect. I give
way to much value to the work that went into them to sell them the for money. And yes, Paulina, you are correct, they are in hinged boxes that can be
closed if one should want to.
Toneart, I assume that you are referring to the "stained glass" around one of the mermaids that I painted. It is not real, but a photo frame I found
in a computer program. Actually those mermaids are painted on the interior of old thrown out roof tiles.
I did do a couple of stain glass mosaics on the wooden crosses this year. One is for sale in the gallery, the other I gave to a friend. I hope to do a
lot more mosaics this year. And collages, and nichos, and paintings and paper mache sculptures and learn how to do glass fusion.
I have a friend who is experimenting in glass fusion now and I hope to have some of her work in the gallery in the next year or so. It is after all my
dream to dedicate the rest of my life to learning art. And most of my art is some sort of Iconic Expression, that is what inspires me most to do.
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djh
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Is it fair...?
to post our own personal little shrines... we have a couple human oddities in our Idaho home.... momentos and artifacts from our own travels,
childhoods, and magic moments and discoveries.... ?
Its all just stuff and some numbers.
A day spent sailing isn\'t deducted from one\'s life.
Peace, Love, and Music
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Paula
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djh,
It seems fair-- and very interesting-- to me.
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Eli
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Sure, I am curious, why not? A personal shrine sure seems valid tp me, if it is from your heart. But then again, consider the source this advise is
coming from, jeje.
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Paulina
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This alter was made at the local rural school in Punta Banda in memory of a very dear man, Bill Y., who was the school's Santa Claus every year until
he was taken in an auto accident.
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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bajajudy
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One of my favorite photos
It is reputed that you can see the Pacific and SOC from this shrine.
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bajajudy
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Pancho's
In San Raphael
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bajajudy
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Unadorned Tropic of Cancer
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bajajudy
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Another Tropic of Cancer
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bajajudy
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The Palms
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tortuga
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Para Guadalupe .......
..... in Santiago .
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Descanso de Hector
a monument for a fallen truck driver on highway one . There was a lot of work done to honor this person
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Eli
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Here is a link to a few years of the Alter Table at Galeria Los Angeles.
http://picasaweb.google.com/SaradeLaVos/LosAngelesAlterTable
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windgrrl
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The faithful keep a candle lit at night - you can look up to the top of the hill where this shrine is set and see a soft glow at night.
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n214/jgyorkos/PICT0118.jpg[/url]
[Edited on 10-22-2007 by windgrrl]
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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Skipjack Joe
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Windgirl,
If you edit your post and use this URL your image will display properly:
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n214/jgyorkos/PICT0118.jp...
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amir
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On Bahia Concepcion
Everyone has seen this one:
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windgrrl
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Thank you.
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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